Savings-bank.



PATENTED MAY 12, 1908.

H. SELLIN.

SAVINGS BANK.

APPLICATION FILED APR..16,1907.

' HAMPUS SELLIN,

OF LULEK, SWEDEN.

SAVINGS-BANK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 12, 1908.

Application filed April 15, 1907. Serial No. 368,346.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HAMPUs SELLIN, a subject of the King of Sweden, residing at Lulea, in t e Province of Norrbotten and Kingdom of Sweden, have invented a new and useful Savings-Bank, of which the following is a specification.

he present invention relates to an im proved savings-bank so constructed as to make impossible a removal through its mouth-piece of a coin once dropped into the bank.

A bank in accordance with this invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing where Figure 1 shows a section thereof. Fig. 2 shows the box in section and a side-view of the device referred to.

1 designates the box and 2 the aperture for insertion of the coins. A fixedmouth-piece 3 inside the box is joined to the latter and forms a coin-passage to which are attached two swinging flaps 5 mounted on horizontal shafts 4 and depending in the box so as to form a space between them, said space forming a termination of the coin passage. These flaps embrace each other loosely at one or both side-edges by means of cars 6 or the like and consequently accompany each other in their lateral swinging motion.

When the bank is tipped sideWise or turned bottom upwards, the flaps will drop one on to the other, thus preventing a falling out of the coins. It is evident, however, that nothing prevents the insertion of coins into the bank when in its normal position. One flap is preferably made slightly longer than the other. An additional safe guard is obtained by arranging beneath the flaps a partition 7 formed by the horizontal portion of a stirrup depending in the box, which stirrup preferably may be joined to the mouth-piece and inserted with it in the box. This partition forms an obstacle to getting at the coins from without by means of a knife or the like.

Claim.

In a savings bank, the combination of a fixed mouth-piece (3) forming a coinassage, horizontal shafts at the inner end of t 1e coinpassage, with flaps pivoted upon said shafts and depending into the box, one of saidflaps embracing the other loosely at the edges, and a horizontally disposed partition (7) in the box, beneath the aforesaid flaps for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention, I have signed my name in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HAMPUS SELLIN. 

